Book review – Page 6

Book review: Turning the World Upside Down Again, 2nd Edn

"This is an important book that covers a great deal of ground relevant to human health and flourishing" — Paquita de Zulueta reviews the second edition of Nigel Crisp's Turning the World Upside Down Again

3 September 2022

5 mins read

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Book review: Finance Aspects for Medical Doctors, 2022 Edition

Can any guide to financial aspects of medical practice from the doctor’s perspective ever claim to be ‘friendly'? Andrew Papanikitas finds this book to be useful. The book collects an up-to-date set of facts about things such as what a set of

21 August 2022

2 mins read

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Book review: Diagnostic Dermoscopy: The Illustrated Guide. 2nd Edn

"I strongly recommend this book to my colleagues both in primary and secondary care" – George C Moncrieff, Chair of the Dermatology Council for England until 2018, reviews the second edition of Jonathan Bowling's Diagnostic Dermoscopy: The Illustrated Guide

20 August 2022

1 min read

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Book review: Jews Don’t Count

Andrew Papanikitas reviews 'Jews Don't Count' by comedian David Baddiel, a reflective essay that unpacks the idea that either you can’t be racist to or that is somehow ok to be racist to a Jew. Do some racisms or other sources of

14 August 2022

2 mins read

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Book review: What Seems To Be The Problem?

"What I am increasingly aware of the longer I practice medicine is that traditional models of care are not working" — Maryan Naeem reviews 'What Seems To Be The Problem?', the new memoir by Laura Marshall-Andrews

7 August 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: Mend the Living

"a filmic, memorable story that will leave its traces on the reader as the coastline is shaped by the sea" — Jane H Roberts reviews Mend the Living, the award-winning novel by Maylis de Kerangal

31 July 2022

3 mins read

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Book Review: An ordinary doctor: General practice & beyond, by Susie West

Paul Hepple reviews 'An ordinary doctor' by Susie West, and is captivated, inspired and angered

24 July 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: How to Rise: A Complete Resilience Manual

"a self-help-style read for patients seeking methods of improving their own mental wellbeing" — Lucy Martin reviews How to Rise: A Complete Resilience Manual by Karen Forshaw and Chrissie Mowbray

17 July 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: Zero

Peter Lindsay reviews Jeremy Hunt's new book, Zero

16 July 2022

6 mins read

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Book review: The Nutrition Proposition

There is an enormous body of information on diet and nutrition, but how do you know what dietary information to recommend to patients? Terry Kemple reviews The Nutrition Proposition by James McCormack and Marcie Gray, where "most questions about nutrition and diet

10 July 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: Our Mothers Ourselves: Six Women From Across The World Tell Their Mothers’ Stories

Six authors of differing careers, backgrounds, and geography write about their mothers’ lives in six chapters - Our Mothers Ourselves, reviewed by Hannah Milton

3 July 2022

2 mins read

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Book review: The Tales of a Suffolk GP

A book "of interest to students, GPs, AiTs, patients, and even medical historians" — Professor Amanda Howe reviews The Tales of a Suffolk GP by Andrew Yager

2 July 2022

1 min read

AiT·Arts·Book review·International

The Last King of Scotland: Using a movie to explore family medicine residents’ understanding of professionalism

Movies allow health care professionals to immerse themselves in “near-true” experiences that challenge their values and principles. Beatrice Khater and Bassem Saab discuss using The Last King of Scotland in family medicine training at the American University of Beirut

29 June 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: Get Off The Couch Before It’s Too Late: All The Whys and Wherefores of Exercise

"... it is never too late to start accruing benefit [from exercise]" — Karen O’Reilly, GP, reviews Get Off The Couch Before It's Too Late: All The Whys and Wherefores of Exercise by Hugh Bethell

26 June 2022

4 mins read

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How to balance science and compassion in menopause care – two books reviewed

Rebecca Mawson reviews 2 books different in tone but equally sound on the subject of the menopause.

19 June 2022

3 mins read

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The strange and curious guide to trauma (Book review)

Hannah Milton reviews a book aimed at 8–12-year-old children which explains how traumatic experiences can affect the brain and lead to altered feelings and behaviours in the future.

12 June 2022

1 min read

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Book review: The sleeping beauties, and other stories of mystery illness, by Suzanne O’Sullivan

Suzanne O’Sullivan is a British neurologist with a particular interest in psychosomatic diseases. Her book explores how the causes of psychosomatic neurological disorders do not necessarily have their cause within the individual patient but within the society that they live in. Review

5 June 2022

3 mins read

Arts·Book review

Book review: Of human kindness: What Shakespeare teaches us about empathy

David Jeffrey suggests that medical teachers will find this book a source of inspiration in encouraging students to engage in empathic relationships with patients and colleagues.

29 May 2022

1 min read

BJGP Long Read·Book review

Against the grain: a celebration of general practice

Roger Jones reviews 'A fortunate woman' by Polly Morland. At a very difficult time for general practice and for the medical profession as a whole, this book comes as a most welcome affirmation of the central importance of a respectful, reciprocal relationship

22 May 2022

5 mins read

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BJGP Long Read·Book review·Bright Ideas and Innovation

Why it’s so hard to be a good global citizen in the 21st century: A review of Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

Ivy Mitchell and Andrew Papanikitas review Doughnut Economics - an attempt to rewire economic thinking to take account of both social deprivation and environmental sustainability.

21 May 2022

4 mins read

Book review·Opinion

On ‘On Bullshit’ and the removal of nutrition from words

Can a statement be a lie if if its author does not know (or want to know) that they are lying? John Spicer reviews an intriguing little book 'On Bullshit.'

17 May 2022

3 mins read

Book review·Opinion

Book review : The five health frontiers, a new radical blueprint

Robert MacGibbon reviews a new radical blueprint for health which examines ‘five frontiers of health’; social justice, economic, social care, sustainability and a public health new deal.

7 May 2022

2 mins read

Book review·Coronavirus

Book review: The long covid self-help guide: practical ways to manage symptoms

Trish Greenhalgh reviews a book intended as a supplement to the clinical care offered in specialist long covid clinics.

28 April 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: The Painful Truth: The New Science of Why We Hurt and How We Can Heal by Monty Lyman

Hannah Milton, GP, reviews Monty Lyman's The Painful Truth: The New Science of Why We Hurt and How We Can Heal.

24 April 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: Finding the mother tree

Trish Greenhalgh suggests we learn from other disciplines about the folly of taking an overly reductive, one-variable-at-a-time view of the world and mistaking it for the highest form of science.

9 April 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: Frontline -saving lives in war, disaster and disease, by Tony Redmond

Andrew Papanikitas finds that 'Frontline' is not the ‘One bloody thing after another,’ of sensationalism for shock value. It is a reflective account full of haunting ethical choices.

2 April 2022

2 mins read

Book review·Opinion

Book review: Humanity’s Conundrum by David Zigmond

Chris Dowrick reviews 'Humanity's conundrum' by David Zigmond. It is easy to become jaded and tired and to lose sight of the therapeutic purpose underlying all of our clinical encounters. Zigmond reminds us to stop, to listen and to respond.

13 March 2022

3 mins read

Book review·International

Book Review: ‘Go, went, gone’ by Jenny Erpenbeck

Paquita De Zulueta reviews 'Go, went, gone' by Jenny Erpenbeck, a novel tackling themes of asylum and involuntary displacement

5 March 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: The Deepest Well: Healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity

Hannah Milton reviews a book which argues that childhood adversity leads to other illnesses and that interventions for parents and children are needed as early as possible.

27 February 2022

2 mins read

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Book Review: ‘Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty’ by Patrick Radden Keefe

RCGP Past President, Terry Kemple, reviews Keefe's 'Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty'.

10 February 2022

3 mins read

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Book Review: ‘Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription’ by Michael P. Hengartner

Marion Brown reviews Michael P. Hengartner'a critique of the pharmaceutical evidence for antidepressant use and underlying disease models.

14 January 2022

3 mins read

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Book review: Early medical abortion, equality of access, and the telemedical imperative

Early medical abortion, equality of access, and the telemedical imperative is an exploration of both early medical abortion and telemedicine through the lenses of clinical evidence, social developments and legal policy. Andrew Papanikitas gives us his review.

30 December 2021

3 mins read

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Book review: Bullshit jobs – the rise of pointless work and what we can do about it

Are at least 50% of jobs in the industrialised world pointless and unnecessary? Emma McKenzie-Edwards reviews "Bullshit jobs – the rise of pointless work and what we can do about it", by David Graeber.

27 December 2021

3 mins read

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‘Never try to rush your last patient on a Friday afternoon’: why we need wisdom literature in medicine.

Why on earth would a GP read a textbook of radiology? John Launer finds wisdom for all doctors in an unexpected place.

21 December 2021

2 mins read

Book review

What Happened to You?

Hannah Milton reviews "What Happened to You?" by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey. The The book seeks to shift conversations away from “what is wrong with you?” to “what happened to you?”

16 December 2021

2 mins read

Book review

The doctor will see you now

The intense pressure GPs are constantly facing can at times feel like a landslide ready to take us under. Awais Ahmad reviews "The Doctor Will See You Now", which lifts the lid on it all.

22 November 2021

3 mins read

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Unwell women: misdiagnosis and myth in a man-made world

Rebecca Mawson reviews Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn. Her verdict - it is worth a read for anyone who lives as a woman, lives with a woman, or lives a life where they look after women!

12 November 2021

2 mins read

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On unsung heroes in primary care, and helping parents and babies to sleep.

General practice is full of unsung heroes. John Launer tells us about Dilys Daws and reviews two of her books, which may be of great help to many parents.

2 November 2021

3 mins read

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Book Review: Brain Fever. Professor Richard Moxon

We have all had the fear that that a child we had seen with a minor flu-like illness at 4pm might be terminally ill with meningococcal septicaemia before the day was over. Hugh Bethell reviews a book by Oxford Professor of Paediatrics

28 October 2021

3 mins read

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Book review: Racist Tones | Reflections on 2 Tone, racism and medicine

"Whereas 2 Tone bands were kicking out neo-Nazis from their gigs decades ago, anecdotal reports of obsequious adjustments accommodating the racist demands of some patients continue to occur within the NHS today, despite an official zero-tolerance approach to racism." Sati Heer-Stavert reflects

23 September 2021

3 mins read

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